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cityofhouston.com

City of Houston | City of Houston

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

222 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

268 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cityofhouston.com page load time and found that the first response time was 222 ms and then it took 1.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cityofhouston.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

cityofhouston.com

222 ms

screen.css

80 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

266 ms

bootstrap.min.js

212 ms

scripts.js

87 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 20% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Cityofhouston.com, 24% (13 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 20% (11 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (975 ms) belongs to the original domain Cityofhouston.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 700.0 kB (20%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Cityofhouston.com main page is 3.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 16.9 kB
  • After minification 15.8 kB
  • After compression 4.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. City Of Houston images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 560.6 kB

  • Original 809.7 kB
  • After minification 809.2 kB
  • After compression 249.0 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 560.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 121.2 kB

  • Original 147.5 kB
  • After minification 147.4 kB
  • After compression 26.3 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Cityofhouston.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 121.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (43%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Of Houston. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

cityofhouston.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cityofhouston.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cityofhouston.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of City Of Houston. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: